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Rewilding Watersheds: Using Nature's Algorithms to Fix Our Broken Rivers Marine and Freshwater Research © CSIRO 2021 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF20335_AC Supplementary material Rewilding watersheds: using nature’s algorithms to fix our broken rivers Natalie K. RideoutA,G,1, Bernhard WegscheiderB,1, Matilda KattilakoskiA, Katie M. McGeeC,D, Wendy A. MonkE, and Donald J. BairdF ACanadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, 10 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada. BCanadian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada. CEnvironment and Climate Change Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON, L7R 4A6, Canada. DCentre for Biodiversity Genomics and Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road E., Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. EEnvironment and Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, 2 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada. FEnvironment and Climate Change Canada @ Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of New Brunswick, 10 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada. GCorresponding author. Email: [email protected] 1These authors contributed equally to the work. Page 1 of 49 Table S1. References linking ecosystem functions with rewilding goals, providing supporting evidence for Fig. 1 Restore natural flow Mitigate climate Restore riparian Re-introduce Improve water quality Reduce habitat and sediment regime warming vegetation extirpated species fragmentation 1 Metabolism Aristi et al. 2014 Song et al. 2008 Wassenaar et al. 2010 Huang et al. 2018 Jankowski and Schindler 2019 2 Decomposition Delong 2010 Perry et al. 2011 Delong 2010 Wenisch et al. 2017 Ferreira et al. 2006 Langhans and Langhans and Borders et al. 2006 Kittle et al. 1995 Tockner 2006 Tockner 2006 Duarte et al. 2008 Shumilova et al. 2019 Lin et al. 2019 3 Primary productivity Amoros and Bornette McGowan et al. 2011 McInerney and Rees Rodriguez-Lozano et Parker et al. 2012 Jones et al. 2020 2002 2017 al. 2015 Wassenaar et al. 2010 Jones et al. 2020 Ou et al. 2019 4 Secondary productivity Iwata et al. 2003 Nelson et al. 2017 Stone and Wallace Kemp et al. 2011 Richmond et al. 2016 Pringle et al. 2000 Heinrich et al. 2014 1998 Rodriguez-Lozano et deBruyn et al. 2003 Fausch et al. 2010 Pringle et al. 2000 Merten et al. 2014 al. 2015 Palmer and Ruhi 2019 Progar and Moldenke 2009 Banks et al. 2007 5 Food web complexity Amoros and Bornette Modiba et al. 2017 Ray et al. 2004 Windsor et al. 2019 Pringle et al. 2000 2002 Thompson et al. 2018 deBruyn et al. 2003 He et al. 2019 Heinrich et al. 2014 Orzetti et al. 2010 Palmer and Ruhi 2019 6 Functional redundancy Amoros and Bornette Bruno et al. 2016 Modiba et al. 2017 Chalcraft and Laini et al. 2019 Liu and Wang 2018 2002 Resetarits 2003 Wu et al. 2019 Oliveira et al. 2018 Belmar et al. 2019 7 Habitat provisioning Pelletier et al. 2020 Fullerton et al. 2018 Wohl 2017 Law et al. 2017 Blettler et al. 2019 Barbarossa et al. 2020 Csiki and Rhoads Thompson et al. 2018 Wilby et al. 2018 Paredes-Arquiola et East et al. 2015 2013 Thakur et al. 2020 al. 2014 Bellmore et al. 2019 Manfrin et al. 2020 Horn et al. 2004. AMBER Consortium Marsili-Libelli et al. 2020 2013 8 Nutrient cycling Amoros and Bornette Palmer and Ruhi 2019 Osborne and Kovacic Garman and Macko Mekonnen and 2002 Wrona et al. 2006 1993 1998 Hoekstra 2015 Ambio Wenger et al. 2019 Boyer et al. 2002. Puttock et al. 2017 9 Flood attenuation Galat et al. 1998 Moor et al. 2015 Gilvear et al. 2013 Puttock et al. 2017 Hering et al. 2001 Prudhomme et al. Wegener et al. 2017 2003 Roy et al. 2001 10 Water purification Bai et al. 2020 Wu and Ding 2019 Li et al. 2019 Kong et al. 2020 Zheng et al. 2019 Page 2 of 49 Restore natural flow Mitigate climate Restore riparian Re-introduce Improve water quality Reduce habitat and sediment regime warming vegetation extirpated species fragmentation 11 Flood/ flow pulse Weisener et al. 2017 Palmer and Ruhi 2019 Grossart and Rojas- Jimenez 2016 Zhang et al. 12 Groundwater recharge Wang et al. 2010 Libera et al. 2019 Smith et al. 2020 Buttle 2011 Lehr et al. 2015 Page 3 of 49 References AMBER Consortium (2020). The AMBER Barrier Atlas. A Pan-European database of artificial instream barriers. Version 1.0. Available at https://amber.international/european-barrier-atlas [Verified 29 June 2020]. Amoros, C., and Bornette, G. (2002). Connectivity and biocomplexity in waterbodies of riverine floodplains. Freshwater Biology 47, 761–776 doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00905.x. 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Page 4 of 49 S2 Potential data sources to support development of indicators of rewilding potential (see Table 1 and text for further details) The data sources listed here can support indicator development for selected ecosystem functions, but the concept could be extended to other functions included in the rewilding framework presented in the text. Canada’s Hydrometric Station Network Data available Real time and historic discharge and water level data with daily time steps Extent Canada URL https://wateroffice.ec.gc.ca/mainmenu/station_and_network_data_index_e.html Reference Water Survey of Canada. National Water Data Archive: HYDAT. Available for download from: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/cmc/hydrometrics/www/ European AMBER Barrier Atlas Data available Spatial database of recorded barriers in rivers in Europe Extent Europe URL https://amber.international/european-barrier-atlas/ Reference AMBER Consortium (2020). The AMBER Barrier Atlas. A Pan-European database of artificial instream barriers. Version 1.0. Available at https://amber.international/european-barrier-atlas [Verified 29 June 2020]. USGS WaterQualityWatch Data available Water quality parameters (water temperature, conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, nitrate, discharge, chlorophyll-a, and other surrogates) Page 5 of 49 Extent United States of America URL https://waterwatch.usgs.gov/wqwatch/ Reference US Geological Survey (2020). National Water Information System. (USGS Water Data for the Nation). Available at https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/ Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network (CABIN) Data available Macroinvertebrate taxonomic richness and abundance, site assessment in comparison to regional Reference Condition, habitat characteristics Extent Canada URL https://cabin-rcba.ec.gc.ca/cabin/login?culture = en-CA Reference Environment and Climate Change Canada 2020, Canadian Aquatic Biomonitoring Network. URL https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian- aquatic-biomonitoring-network.html. Other useful data sources: HydroSHEDS Data available Georeferenced datasets for river networks, watershed boundaries, drainage directions and flow accumulations, land use and landscape information, climate Extent Global URL https://www.hydrosheds.org Page 6 of 49 Reference Lehner, B., Verdin, K., and Jarvis, A. (2008). New global hydrography derived from spaceborne elevation data. Eos 89(10), 93–94. doi:10.1029/2008EO100001 EOLakeWatch Data available Long-term, satellite-derived, remote sensing data of inland algal blooms Extent Regional within Canada (Lake Erie, Lake Winnipeg, Lake of the Woods) URL https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/water-overview/satellite-earth- observations-lake-monitoring/remote-sensing-algal-blooms.html References Environment and Climate Change Canada 2020.
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